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The Spirit of the Game: When Winning is Losing, and Losing is Optimisation

05/12/2014

Is it possible for a player to improve his chances at attaining the best possible results, by LOSING a match? Turns out this is a lot more common than you think.

The Spirit of the Game: When Winning is Losing, and Losing is Optimisation A few weeks ago I wrote an answer in which I described how, if a few (admittedly extremely unlikely) choice events were to occur at the ATP World Tour Finals, then Federer would find himself in an odd predicament in the Davis Cup Finals, in that he would need to lose a match to the French team in...